"The 20 days between the phone message and the staggering exit line, according to the governor's aides, were marked by a torrent of confidential phone calls and bitter negotiations and a frenetic public schedule that offered no inkling that the governor's political career was imploding. It also included a series of wrenching discussions about his hidden sexual life, with friends, political allies and, with special counselors gathered downstairs in the governor's mansion, his wife."Interestingly, a new a Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll shows McGreevey's approval rating has not yet suffered from the "bombshell" disclosures from last week.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian Science Monitor.
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